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Article: Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years

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Apple has updated its high-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, following the earlier update to the low-end model. These new configurations feature increased base storage and faster SSD speeds compared to the previous M4 generation.

The updates are accompanied by price increases for all models, as the new base configurations now come with double the storage, eliminating the previous lower-storage, lower-cost entry points.

The M5 Pro and M5 Max chips introduce a redesigned CPU core structure, featuring six new "super cores" and twelve new "performance cores" optimized for pro workloads, claiming significantly higher multithreaded performance compared to the M1 generation.

Main topics: MacBook Pro update, M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, increased base storage and pricing, chip architecture and performance claims.

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apple-intros-m5-pro-and-max-macbook-pros-and-its-first-new-monitors-in-years/

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Ars Technica

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2026-03-03 15:19

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Apple updated its low-end MacBook Pro with the Apple M5 chip back in October, but the higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch Pros stuck with the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. This morning, Apple circled back and updated the rest of the lineup, adding the M5 Pro and M5 Max to the higher-end machines and bumping the base storage—the M5 Pro now comes with 1TB of storage by default, while M5 Max chips come with 2TB of storage by default. The internal storage is said to be “up to 2x faster” than the previous-generation Pros. Apple is also bumping the base storage for the M5 MacBook Pro from 512GB to 1TB.
Unlike Apple’s other announcements this week, though, these upgrades also come with increases to their starting prices; the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro chip now starts at $2,199 instead of $1,999, and the 16-inch model with an M5 Pro chip starts at $2,699 instead of $2,499. The M5 MacBook Pro now starts at $1,699, up from $1,599. Granted, you’re getting double the storage of those old base models, but you no longer have the option to pay less if you don’t need 1TB of space.
The M5 Pro and M5 Max look like fairly major updates from the M4 Pro and M4 Max. Both use an 18-core CPU with six higher-performing cores and 12 lower-performing cores, but Apple is changing how it talks about each kind of core. The high-performance cores are now called “super cores,” a change that Apple says will retroactively apply to the high-performance cores in the basic Apple M5. The M5 has four of them, and M5 Pro and M5 Max have six.
Apple says the 12 other CPU cores in the M5 Pro and M5 Max are an “all-new performance core that is optimized to deliver greater power-efficient, multithreaded performance for pro workloads.” These appear to be different from the efficiency cores used in M5 and older Apple chips. Apple didn’t make direct generation-over-generation performance comparisons, but it did say that M5 Pro and M5 Max “deliver up to 2.5x higher multithreaded performance than M1 Pro and M1 Max.”